Murder Synonyms and Antonyms

mûrdər
The crime of murdering someone
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crime
  2. homicide
  3. killing
  4. slaying
  5. unlawful homicide
  6. death
  7. destruction
  8. annihilation
  9. blood
  10. carnage
  11. putting an end to
  12. shooting
  13. knifing
  14. assassination
  15. terrorism
  16. dispatching
  17. lynching
  18. felony
  19. killing with malice aforethought
  20. murder-in-the-first-degree
  21. first-degree murder
  22. contract killing
  23. murder-in-the-second-degree
  24. murder in the third degree
  25. manslaughter
  26. massacre
  27. genocide
  28. butchery
  29. mayhem
  30. patricide
  31. matricide
  32. infanticide
  33. fratricide
  34. the Holocaust
  35. suicide
  36. foul-play
  37. ride
  38. dust off
  39. bump off
  40. the works
  41. the business
  42. one-way-ticket
  43. dowser
  44. escape punishment
  45. take-flight
  46. avoid prosecution
  47. avoid punishment
  48. hit
  49. execution
To kill unlawfully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slay
  2. kill
  3. destroy
  4. assassinate
  5. do in
  6. butcher
  7. bump off
  8. off
  9. waste
  10. killing
  11. finish
  12. liquidate
  13. asphyxiate
  14. put away
  15. massacre
  16. electrocute
  17. mangle
  18. eliminate
  19. knock off
  20. execute
  21. exterminate
  22. hit
  23. homicide
  24. guillotine
  25. rub out
  26. hang
  27. dispatch
  28. wipe out
  29. zap
  30. lynch
  31. manslaughter
  32. strangle
  33. polish off
  34. remove
  35. mutilate
Antonyms:
  1. save
  2. preserve
  3. guard
  4. protect
*To ruin, especially by incompetence
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. spoil
  2. mar
  3. misuse

Words Related to Murder

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Murder Sentence Examples

  • The murder happened days, maybe weeks ago.

  • His murder was someone else's headache.

  • Murder isn't the only form of violent crime that is falling.

  • Check into the murder of a woman named Brenda Washington in Omaha, Nebraska.

  • To be honest, I don't like the idea of a murder going unanswered.

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